I dunno, [Po]. I picked that up from "A Clockwork Orange", where Alex explains to the truant(?) officer that his absence from school is due to "an intolerable pain in the gulliver".-- MikeD,
Mar 16 2010

you can't rely on Clockwork Orange as a source for slang - Burgess invented a lot of those words.-- po,
Mar 16 2010

I think Ikea does the bone ice trays. The bun trays will be much harder to come by, although I think Ikea may also do stars and crescent moon ice trays, so you might have something there.

I'm going at Easter - I'll have a look, and if they have any I shall buy them. And some gin and some tonic. yes.-- wagster,
Mar 16 2010

Not quite. If you blag something it means that you persuaded the owner to lend/give you it, possibly under false pretences. E.g. I blagged these tickets for the Cliff Richard gig by telling them that they were a present for my poor, sick, old mother.

Isn't that what con or swindle mean? As in "I conned the shopkeeper out of a quid by telling him I could get that wine cheaper in Tesco's". I'm less sure about 'swindle' - I don't use it much. I've always assumed it meant quite a large fraud.-- wagster,
Mar 16 2010

[Wags], swindle is more small-time (at least when used in the U.S.). A "heist" is of a grander scale.-- MikeD,
Mar 16 2010